Improvement in carriage-springs



c B. GALENTINE.

, Carriage-Spring. 3 '2 Patented July 14, I863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ O. GALENTINE, OF BROOKLYN CENTER, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-SPRINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,224, dated July 14, 1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G. B. GALENTINE, of Brooklyn Center, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and improved mode of maintaining the springs of land-carriages and the parts thereunto attached in their proper relations and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description-to wit:

The nature of myinvention consists in so attaching a triangular brace, of steel, iron, or othersuitable material, to the springs or parts thereunto attached ofland-carriages as effectually to prevent any hurtful change of relation in said springs or parts.

To enable others skilled in the art to make anl use my invention, which I call Galentines self-acting triangular spring-brace, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I attach the two equal legs of the metallic triangleAB C (Figures 1 and 2 accompanying drawings) at A and B by hinge-joints to the upper and lower middle of the spring, as at A and B, Fig. 1, or other corresponding parts, and to each other at the point 0, in such a manner as to allow of easy motion as the spring opens and closes. The point C will then bein the plane E D F, extended forward. Now, if the point C be always kept in a plane corresponding to the center of the opening between the halves of the spring in every position and carried forward and backward as the triangle is elongated or shortened by the action of the spring opening and closing it, it is manifest that the parts of the spring and other portions of the carriage attached thereto cannot be moved from their proper relations. The point C is elevated and lowered and carried forwai d and backward to meet these conditions, and held firmly in its position at every point by extending the leg A O to G, (A and G being equidistant from 0,) a fixed point on the perch on the same level as the base of the springs, and so attaching it as to admit of slight motion backward and forward and rotation as the point A is elevated and depressed.

What Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The application of a selfadj ustin g triangular brace to land-carriages in such a manner as to retain the parts of the springs and their 4 attachments in their proper relations, and thus to secure the parts from undue strain or breaking by the motions of the carriage.

O. B. GALENTINE Witnesses HENRY Frsn, ADAM W. Pon. 

